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kornelski / cargo-deb

A cargo subcommand that generates Debian packages from information in Cargo.toml
https://lib.rs/cargo-deb
MIT License
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Avoid including copyright information #131

Closed martingms closed 4 weeks ago

martingms commented 1 month ago

Hello, and thank you very much for this great utility!

I'm using cargo-deb to build internal debs for distribution within my company, and it mostly fits the bill perfectly. I do however wish (or perhaps I've missed it?) there was a way to not include copyright information in /usr/share/doc/... All our debs are for internal use only, so the copyright information is not useful. Having to put a bogus license = "UNLICENSED" is not much of an issue, but I'd prefer to avoid the noise, both in Cargo.toml and in the /usr/share/doc/.. tree.

kornelski commented 1 month ago

At minimum you only need the authors property, which is also used for the Maintainer metadata. The copyright file is about 250 bytes large, so I don't think it's a big deal. These things are required by Debian, and lintian complains about them.

martingms commented 4 weeks ago

Fair enough!